Re: [RFC v2 27/32] x86/tdx: Exclude Shared bit from __PHYSICAL_MASK

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu May 20 2021 - 16:56:23 EST


On 5/20/21 1:16 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021, Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan wrote:
>> So what is your proposal? "tdx_guest_" / "tdx_host_" ?
> 1. Abstract things where appropriate, e.g. I'm guessing there is a clever way
> to deal with the shared vs. private inversion and avoid tdg_shared_mask
> altogether.

One example here would be to keep a structure like:

struct protected_mem_config
{
unsigned long p_set_bits;
unsigned long p_clear_bits;
}

Where 'p_set_bits' are the bits that need to be set to establish memory
protection and 'p_clear_bits' are the bits that need to be cleared.
physical_mask would clear both of them:

physical_mask &= ~(pmc.p_set_bits & pmc.p_set_bits);

Then, in a place like __set_memory_enc_dec(), you would query whether
memory protection was in place or not:

+ if (protect) {
+ cpa.mask_set = pmc.p_set_bits;
+ cpa.mask_clr = pmc.p_clear_bits;
+ map_type = TDX_MAP_PRIVATE;
+ } else {
+ cpa.mask_set = pmc.p_clear_bits;
+ cpa.mask_clr = pmc.p_set_bits;
+ map_type = TDX_MAP_SHARED;
+ }

The is_tdx_guest() if()'s would just go away.

Basically, if there's a is_tdx_guest() check in common code, it's a
place that might need an abstraction.

This, for instance:

> + if (!ret && is_tdx_guest()) {
> + ret = tdg_map_gpa(__pa(addr), numpages, map_type);
> + }

could probably just be:

if (!ret && is_protected_guest()) {
ret = x86_vmm_protect(__pa(addr), numpages, protected);
}